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13 Nov 2020
News

New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. When HBS opened its first virtual classroom in 2014, the School had just started to experiment with online education. Located at Boston’s public television... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial

also be viewed online at Baker Library. As the manufacturing arm of AT&T, Western Electric’s Hawthorne plant, located outside Chicago in Cicero, Illinois, was known for the practice of “scientific management” (as espoused by... View Details

Keywords: Elton Mayo; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Telecommunications; Information

20 Nov 2019
News

From the Ground Up

that essentially means proud to be from Fiji. We founded Ka-Viti Water in 2011, built our facility and got all the proper approvals, and then started bringing it into the US a few years after that. Fiji is located in the middle of the... View Details

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

03 Apr 2018
News

Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level

Jake Cusack (MBA 2012) is cofounder of CrossBoundary, an investment firm that helps companies explore business opportunities in frontier and developing markets. In this interview, he explains how he and his partners focus their efforts on View Details

25 Jul 2012
News

Movie Magic

rate than the 300 percent annual growth it saw from 2002 to 2007. (Redbox lets would-be renters search locations and reserve titles online.) With a background in high-growth start-ups, Kaplan is already involved in a number of new... View Details

Keywords: vending machines; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

11 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

and space recruiters needs to give students convenient interview opportunities. P – Presentation. Other MBA programs may call company presentations briefings or info sessions. At HBS we refer to any company session located in a classroom... View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2020

the students to get to know the issues and opportunities firsthand. The island nation of Sri Lanka, located just off the southeastern tip of India, was a highlight of the trip given the significant international attention it has attracted... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation

Cobras. The Cobras were working from a position to the southwest of where Major Gurfein was directing the breaching effort. This breach site was directly in front of the Iraqi town of Safwan, key to I MEF’s rapid advance into Iraq, and the key oil infrastructure View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

November 2006
Article

The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies

By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf

Using a detailed database of managerial job descriptions, reporting relationships, and compensation structures in over 300 large U.S. firms, we find that firm hierarchies are becoming flatter. The number of positions reporting directly to the CEO has gone up... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Change; Business Ventures; Compensation and Benefits; Rank and Position; Wages; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Jobs and Positions; United States

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06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

http://hbr.org/2012/03/why-us-competitiveness-matters-to-all-of-us/ar/1 Does America Really Need Manufacturing? Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Too many U.S. companies base decisions about... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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How to Post | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

numbers of students pursuing activities away from campus, and with increased instability in a number of regions of the world, the School has developed guidelines and an approach to funding students that balances educational opportunities with the risks inherent in... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Action Plan: A New ’Cue

sketch out Pork & Mindy’s—the fast-casual barbecue brand that will have 65 locations in the West and Midwest by the end of 2019, along with a growing retail line. On that white board Corsello identified three obstacles. Two were... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2000
News

Marketing Muscle

chairman of Interactive Investor International (iii), Coutu said she relishes the opportunity to do things a little differently. Her Internet financial services company, for example, is located in a renovated building above Smithfields,... View Details

22 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

forthcoming Handbook of Structural Transformation Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

semiconductors. Its Shirakawa plant is located in Fukushima, close to the epicenter of the earthquake and near the site of the nuclear power plant troubles. That plant is responsible for 22% of the world's supply of silicon wafers, and it... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

href="https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01HVD_ALMA512223570440003941&context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US">Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, American Journal of Public... View Details

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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology

find sustained market growth amidst digital advancements. The focus is on CEO Jeff Clarke's decision on whether to continue film production or close the factory permanently. Professor Ryan Raffaelli on location at Kodak headquarters in... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)

located in a Greek Revival plantation home. He now serves as mayor of Marietta, a job he describes as both rewarding and frustrating. His reason for running? “Payback. It’s a trite but true answer. This town has been good to me.” My... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

in restricting the ability of firms to locate where it makes sense for them to be, but rather to create tax reform that makes US firms more competitive. Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Hatch, and Members of the Committee, it is a pleasure... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

Business School Case 308-072 As it entered its seventh academic year, Codman Academy, an expeditionary learning charter school located in Dorchester, Massachusetts, was reflecting on its successes and challenges. The school had succeeded... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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